I have big plans for this blog. I really do. Unfortunately, I can't move ahead with my plans until I get a digital camera (that's right - I don't own one) and we get a computer at home (right again - no computer at home). Just so you don't think we're cavepeople (as you know we don't have a cell phone either) let me explain. I have always had a very nice camera. I've been taking pictures since Junior High with great enthusiasm, very nice equipment and generally a pretty good photographic eye. I still have a great camera: Nikon N2000 from the 90's that's completely manual (shutter speed, light meter and focus)- and I love it. And I still use it a lot. But, just as I think cell phones are evil, I've thought, until recently, that digital phones must certainly harbor satanic qualities too. After all, why on earth does everyone need their pictures so fast? And how can you stand not having good prints?
Now that I have this blog, it's all clear. Cell phones are evil, but digitial cameras are a necessity. Like milk.
We had a computer at home until this time last year when we put it up in the attic to do some renovations. It was in trouble - too many games on it, wicked wicked slow, in desperate need of a good hard-drive cleaning and purging. So, it went to AJ's office at one point where it was supposed to have been "bathed" of it's inadequacies and then returned home. It never made it back. At some point during it's spa treatment, AJ decided that it was no good (but it is good) and now refuses to bring it home. I beg and plead and threaten to remove his testicals in the night, but to no avail. He's coveting a new, better, souped up machine - the Apple of his eye. Of course, we can't afford it, so we are left with no computer and random threats at AJ's manhood. (I can't act on those threats now can I? What kind of life would that leave me?).
So, in the last 6 weeks or so there have been tons of things that I would have loved to have entered in this blog. Things to let you see, that I couldn't because I didn't have an instant download ability for images, and our scanner isn't hooked up to anything but air so I can't scan the prints from my Nikon. All those lovely prints.
Here are a few of the things you've missed:
Jake took some great photos with my Nikon. No joke. They're good for a 10 year old who had a 60-second lesson on how to focus, set speed and light and find a good shot.
Kids running across the finish line at this summer's track meets.
The very cool detail of a log that's sitting in our wood pile at home.
My finger after I smashed it with a hammer.
Pictures from my day in Boston with Grace.
A beautiful picture of my Grandmother, who died 10 years ago this past Wednesday. I was really looking forward to this entry; a tribute to a really interesting and important woman. I was hoping it would supercede my little Diana entry, but was dissapointed not to have been able to get the photo online. Without the photo, the rest of the entry just seemed to fizzle.
Oh the things you're missing.
So, I'm asking the faeries for a new digital camera. I have it all picked out. It's at Best Buy so I'm hoping for gift cards.
My birthday is one week from today.
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Photo Challenge Rules
1. I will post a new photo each week on Thursday, so look for it and try to guess where the photo was taken.
2. To win the prize, post your guess in the comments here on my blog. The first correct answer wins.
3. Be as specific in naming the location as you can.
4. Let me know how to contact you, in case you win, so I can get the prize to you.
5. If you send me an email with the correct guess, it will count, but I'd prefer to have answers posted on the blog. That way, others can see your guess and use it as a clue.
6. Answers by phone or in person don't count. However, now and then I will give someone a hint if they ask me in person. In such cases, I'll post the hint on the blog, as well as on my Facebook page for everyone to see. And I might Tweet it too.
7. On Wednesday, I will announce the winner. You have from the time the image is posted on Thursday, through 7am on Wednesday to get your guesses posted in the comments.
8. My husband and kids are not allowed to participate - sorry guys. Please don't bribe them for the answer, unless the bribe is something yummy they can share with me.
9. Most importantly, pass this on to your local friends. The more the merrier!
Remember, all photos will be taken in the Kennebunks (Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Lower Village, West Kennebunk or Arundel).
2. To win the prize, post your guess in the comments here on my blog. The first correct answer wins.
3. Be as specific in naming the location as you can.
4. Let me know how to contact you, in case you win, so I can get the prize to you.
5. If you send me an email with the correct guess, it will count, but I'd prefer to have answers posted on the blog. That way, others can see your guess and use it as a clue.
6. Answers by phone or in person don't count. However, now and then I will give someone a hint if they ask me in person. In such cases, I'll post the hint on the blog, as well as on my Facebook page for everyone to see. And I might Tweet it too.
7. On Wednesday, I will announce the winner. You have from the time the image is posted on Thursday, through 7am on Wednesday to get your guesses posted in the comments.
8. My husband and kids are not allowed to participate - sorry guys. Please don't bribe them for the answer, unless the bribe is something yummy they can share with me.
9. Most importantly, pass this on to your local friends. The more the merrier!
Remember, all photos will be taken in the Kennebunks (Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Lower Village, West Kennebunk or Arundel).
SNIPPETING
Here's how you Snippet...
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Your job is to add to it. You can add a beginning and lead into the snippet, or you can work from the snippet, heading to an ending. You can write a song with it, or a poem, or just add another sentence, paragraph or dissertation. How much you add and in what direction is completely up to you.
Be sure to read the responses that others have posted. That's half the fun. But, you don't have to continue on from someone else's response.
Click on "Comment" and add your response to the snippet there.
Share this blog with your friends, so they can play too.
I will post a literary "snippet" - a tasty little morsel of verbiage that I've found in a book, movie, song, conversation, or just pulled from thin air.
Your job is to add to it. You can add a beginning and lead into the snippet, or you can work from the snippet, heading to an ending. You can write a song with it, or a poem, or just add another sentence, paragraph or dissertation. How much you add and in what direction is completely up to you.
Be sure to read the responses that others have posted. That's half the fun. But, you don't have to continue on from someone else's response.
Click on "Comment" and add your response to the snippet there.
Share this blog with your friends, so they can play too.
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- My talented husband
- My son's gorgeous red hair
- Lilly of the Valley
- Moments with nothing to do
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